La stiava : comedia
A 1585 Venetian printed comedy by Giovanni Maria Cecchi, published by Bernardo Giunti and held by the Getty Research Institute, its pictures being ownership and decorative devices rather than scenes from the play. The first picture is a woodcut coat of arms framed by cherubs, scrollwork and a lion mask, showing a heraldic motif a designer could borrow for emblem work. The second is an ex libris plate with a flourished strapwork border, with the owner's name and a handwritten date set inside an oval, a model for framing text in a decorative border.
